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Memorandum:
Appointment of Ernest L. Kinney1Jump to section
Ernest L. Kinney seeks the appointment of a 2nd. Lieutenant in the Regular Army. He has been five years at Churchill's Military School---not West-Point. He is a Lieutenant in the 54th. N.Y. Vols, and was assigned to Gen. Tyler's Staff last December, in which service he has continued till now, & still is. His regiment is about being disbanded by consolidation, & he fears being thrown out of service thereby. For this reason he seeks the appointment. He is a family relation of Senator Dixon of Connecticut.
Annotation
[1] AD, DLC-RTL. Second Lieutenant Ernest L. Kinney remained in the Volunteers until he resigned on November 14, 1864, to enlist as private in the First Cavalry on November 17, where he was commissioned second lieutenant on January 2, 1865.